In know there is an answer to this, but I can't for the life of me
remember how to do it.
<Aram>
>Reply-to: f.vandijk@Scintilla.nl
>
>> You don't ned to alias home directories. It's built in to apache.
>> In srm.conf you need:
>>
>> # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
>> # directory if a ~user request is recieved.
>>
>> UserDir public_html
>>
>> This translates ~user to /home/user/public_html/
>>
>> With /home/ to whatever is defined in your /etc/passwd file.
>
>I know this is possible, but we don't want to make user-accounts for
>every user. We are using Novell too and most of the users on that system
>don't need a linux-account. So we have created a script that fetches
>the www-documents from the users personal directory on Novell and stores
>them in /www/users/Linux. To access those files from www using ~ we have
>to make a remap. The funny thing is, CERN can do it and is seems
>that Apache should also be able to do this: the translation rules state
>that Aliases come first and /~users come second.
>
>I hope you have a solution for our problem.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Fred van Djik
--
Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
Apache httpd server team http://www.apache.org
remember how to do it.
<Aram>
>Reply-to: f.vandijk@Scintilla.nl
>
>> You don't ned to alias home directories. It's built in to apache.
>> In srm.conf you need:
>>
>> # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
>> # directory if a ~user request is recieved.
>>
>> UserDir public_html
>>
>> This translates ~user to /home/user/public_html/
>>
>> With /home/ to whatever is defined in your /etc/passwd file.
>
>I know this is possible, but we don't want to make user-accounts for
>every user. We are using Novell too and most of the users on that system
>don't need a linux-account. So we have created a script that fetches
>the www-documents from the users personal directory on Novell and stores
>them in /www/users/Linux. To access those files from www using ~ we have
>to make a remap. The funny thing is, CERN can do it and is seems
>that Apache should also be able to do this: the translation rules state
>that Aliases come first and /~users come second.
>
>I hope you have a solution for our problem.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Fred van Djik
--
Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
Apache httpd server team http://www.apache.org